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Bad Luck, Hot Rocks Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest
ISBN: PB: 9780989785914, DAP, The Ice Plant, November 2014
144 pp., 26.4x19 cm, 140 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each year, of...
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£28,50
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Towards a New Cultural Cartography
ISBN: PB: 9789948207825, DAP, Sharjah Art Foundation, November 2014
275 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. The artist emerges as a new cartographer, who intervenes in existing maps to reveal the know...
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£17,50
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Fox Drum Bebop
ISBN: PB: 9781885030177, DAP, Kaya Press, November 2014
285 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and his family – along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans – are packed off to a concentra...
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£14,99
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Lisa Kereszi The More I Learn About Wom
ISBN: HB: 9780989531115, DAP, J&L Books, November 2014
112 pp., 21.6x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! While photographer Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) was researching for her previous book, "Joe's Junk Yard", her father, Joe Jr., gave her a worn and tattered old photo album that he had compiled in the 1970s and 80s. Inside were...
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£27,00
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Physiology of the Employee
ISBN: PB: 9781939663047, DAP, Wakefield Press, October 2014
160 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 55 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! If Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity – the "mode" itself, fashion – his "Physiology of the Employee" examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: burea...
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£12,50
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Puppet and the Modern
ISBN: HB: 9788074670565, DAP, Arbor Vitae, October 2014
456 pp., 33x21.5 cm, 750 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Czechoslovakia's unique culture of puppet theater reached a glorious apex between about 1900 and 1950, and its visual style was integral to the development of modernist and contemporary theater and animation. "The Puppet an...
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£65,00
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Vital Art Nouveau 1900 From the Collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788074670541, DAP, Museum of Decorative Arts Prague, October 2014
304 pp., 24.7x20.9 cm, 539 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Vital Art Nouveau 1900" presents a selection of the most outstanding works of Czech and European Art Nouveau style from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, all of which are on permanent display at th...
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£57,00
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Gerhard Richter Books
ISBN: PB: 9781941366011, DAP, Gregory R. Miller & Co., October 2014
122 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 24 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Gerhard Richter (born 1932) is predominantly known for his paintings and drawings, which strike a playful balance between photo-realism and abstraction, while at once delving into often controversial political commentary. H...
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£22,00
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Vladimir Jindrich Bufka
ISBN: PB: 9788072154012, DAP, Torst, September 2014
148 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 78 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Despite a career that was curtailed at the age of 29, Vladimir Jindrich Bufka (1887-1916) was one of the most distinctive early-twentieth-century art photographers in Prague and indeed in all of Austria-Hungary. Bufka drew...
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£22,00
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Jan Svoboda
ISBN: PB: 9788072154241, DAP, Torst, September 2014
140 pp., 17.7x16.5 cm, 92 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! Czech artist Jan Svoboda (1934-1990) spent a lifetime laboring to redefine the language of photography. This catalogue gives an overview of his career, from early still lifes to works that questioned the rules and boundarie...
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